Tollywood sensation Vijay Deverakonda's The Deverakonda Foundation was set up over a month ago, to help the maximum amount of middle-class families affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic crisis. 

Reports state that the foundation has raised around Rs 1.7 crore and benefited over 17,000 households. For the uninformed, announcing the Middle-Class Fund, Vijay has said he set aside Rs 25 lakh from his savings to launch the initiative and later had asked his celebrity friends and citizens to donate. 

Now, 36 days since its launch, the foundation has raised Rs. 1.7 crore. Reports further state that it was confirmed on Friday that initiative is being shut down because businesses are slowly resuming in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. As per the statement, 535 volunteers joined The Deverakonda Foundation to help thousands of families and 17,723 families and 58,808 people were benefited from the fund. 

Vijay, in July 2019 had also announced that he started a secret project. The goal of this project is to employ one lakh people. 

Elaborating on the secret project, Vijay said he hired 50 people for this passionate project in August 2019. Due to the effect of coronavirus pandemic on business, the employment plan got stalled but Vijay is proud that two people received their offer letters. He added that the rest of 48 people are on the verge of getting employed soon. After the crisis, Vijay said his team would be happy to accept more youngsters and train them based on their skill set for employment. On the work front, Vijay will be next seen on screen in Puri Jagannadh’s multilingual action-thriller Fighter.